Women, Crime, and Criminal Justice
Original Feminist Readings
Edited by Claire Renzetti and Lynne Goodstein
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Women, Crime, and Criminal Justice: An Overview, Lynne Goodstein
Part I: Connecting Gender and Crime
2. Women, Danger, and Criminology, Elizabeth A. Stanko
3. 'Out of Sight/Out of Mind': Girls in the Juvenile Justice System, Meda Chesney-Lind
4. Girls and Gangs, Rodney K. Brunson and Jody Miller
5. Doing Crime and Being Victimized: Agency and Victimization in Women's Illicit Lives and in the Legal Treatment of Women in Prostitution, Lisa Sanchez
6. Gender and Violence, Candace Kruttschnitt
7. Crime and Punishment in the Lives of Women Alcohol and Other Drug (AOD) Users: Exploring the Gender, Lifestyle, and Legal Issues, Richard F. Mancuso and Brenda A. Miller
8. Explaining Female Offending, Darrell Steffensmeier and Lisa Broidy
Part II: Crimes Against Women
9. Woman Battering: More Than a Family Problem, Kathleen J. Ferraro
10. Sexual Assault, Julie Allison and Irene Kollenbroich-Shea
11. Corporate Violence Against Women, Linda Rynbrandt and Ronald C. Kramer
12. Understanding Violence Against Women: Universal Human Rights and International Law, Judith Bessant and Sandy Cook
Part III: Gender, Law, and Criminal Justice
13. Female Crime Trends, 1960-1995, Darrell Steffensmeier
14. Gender and Law, Frances Bernat
15. Women, Race, and Criminal Justice Processing, Evelyn Gilbert
16. When Victims Become Defendants: Battered Women Charged With Crimes, Sue Osthoff
17. Perspectives on Women in Prison, Barbara Owen
18. Gender and Policing, Susan L. Miller
19. Femininities, Masculinities, and Organizational Conflict: Women in Criminal Justice Occupations, Nancy C. Jurik and Susan E. Martin